A fun story of spells and indecisions from one of the cult authors of current Latin American literature.
The narrator of Una oportunidad is bewitched. When he wants to do certain things, the spell prevents him from doing so; not all things, but rather decisive and decisive actions, such as looking for a witch to help him solve his problem. In his pocket he keeps a piece of paper with the phone numbers of three witches who could undo the spell: "One is like the ones from before, another is modern and the other has her own methods." But which of the three should he call? Between glasses of wine, trips, journalists, ghosts and interrogations, the narrator, self-reflective and undisciplined, strives to tell his experience to find a meaning that eludes him.
Pablo Katchadjian's new novel subverts all narrative logic in a fun and dark story, funny and delirious, and takes advan...read more
